The Master Thespian

Jon Lovitz is a little man with a big voice, and never were those qualities better applied than in his Master Thespian character. The delightfully pompous and shrill stage veteran would treat viewers to weekly lessons in overacting, and no matter how silly things got, you could tell that Lovitz had a very real self-obsessed actor type in mind. The character’s peak came when overacting specialist John Lithgow joined in as a colleague. The fact that those two never got a buddy comedy out of those laughs remains one of the biggest missed opportunities in American comedy.